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- An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
- Two DJ's in Tehran are battling to play the music they love and set up dance parties. Local regime does not look well at harbingers of western culture of decay so the protagonists need to do big decisions.
- After watching a documentary about black widow spiders, Ella spots a connection between the cannibalistic spider species, that eats the male after mating, and a mysterious woman, whom her father has invited to a date that evening.
- When Jessy tells David she's pregnant, his fears of inadequacy as a man take hold. Frantic, he resorts to steroids. Within a short time, David becomes a threat to Jessy and the unborn child.
- In a single humiliating day, Silvia is fired from her job despite being a few years away from retirement, a policeman fines her during a traffic check, and the director of the church choir takes away her solo part. During the Ave Maria rehearsal, Silvia decides to endure in an act of silent resistance.
- In 2014, the Winter Paralympic Games took place at the same time as the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. Following five Ukrainian athletes forced to adapt their personal and professional lives to the ongoing armed conflict, Pushing Boundaries is a pertinent reflection on the capacities of humans to push the boundaries between two countries, and those of their own body.
- Shannet Clemmings, a Black Transgender woman from Jamaica, shares her journey of healing the wounds caused by prejudice and discrimination as she wanders through the empty streets of a European city.
- A peasant couple loses their farm. A couple of days later the farmer finds his wife naked in the stable and his world turns upside down.
- Young wannabe novelist Dominique Piepermann sets out with a lively kebab vendor through a forgotten valley in the Swiss Alps where she comes face to face with love, loss and a Fiat Panda obsessed pimp.
- The gray rock of Mount Flimserstein. The luminous rectangle of a screen in an old Paris cinema. The glittering skyscrapers of Tokyo. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» is a cinematic journey comprising a rich array of images and memories marking an outstanding career. The first feature-length film by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg documents the eventful life and cineastic legacy of an exceptional Swiss director of both films and operas. It spans his formative childhood in a Belle Epoque hotel in the Grisons mountains, and follows his escape from the peaceful Alps to turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love for the cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It delves into the worldly nightlife of 1970s Paris, and shows Schmid filming on location in Morocco, Portugal, and his native Grisons. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» traces the eventful life of a gifted artist. It is a film about arriving, time and again, and about taking leave, for ever. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» lets us hear several of his loyal companions comment on this exceptional artist, among others his muse Ingrid Caven, his cameraman Renato Berta, and close friends like director Werner Schroeter, actress Bulle Ogier, and film scholar Shiguéhiko Hasumi. And we hear Daniel Schmid himself - in a cinematic exploration of his life and work carried by his own voice and view of the world. A world situated between reality and fiction.
- A poor orphan ends up in a high society until a pair of red shoes forces her to dance forever.
- Ivan meets Paolo, little Jonas meets Ida, another Jonas meets Sandra and Annina meets Jonas - in July, at a campsite by a river.
- Ma Na Sapna tells the story of several women in India, dreaming of a better future for themselves and for their families through surrogacy.
- Jeanne, a young chef, has made it to a renowned star restaurant. With iron discipline she tries to convince her chef of her talent but fights against a merciless pecking order until she has to decide how far she wants to go for her career.
- Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for employment.
- Whenever Lothar sneezes, nearby objects explode. Therefore he isolates himself from the outer world. One day, when Lothar breaks his beloved toaster, he faces a dilemma.
- Teenage girl Sadie runs away with a much older man on a motorcycle. Between friendship and love, attraction, and misunderstanding, they develop an emotional connection.
- In the midst of the vibrant medina of Marrakech, Samir longs for love and a better future. But his summer flirtations always end at the airport and he is left behind in a country with limited opportunities. When Samir really falls in love, he is faced with the decision of his life: should he listen to his sister and enter into a traditional marriage in Morocco or follow love and the dream of a better future in Europe?
- Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen's office. Helen is a high level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However they happen to have enrolled on the same salsa course. Due to the lack of men, Anna and Helen have to dance together. A lesbian fairytale depicting the possibility of overcoming social borders.
- The young girl Valesquita lives in a medieval village in poor conditions. But her mother seems to hide tons of gold, and Valesquita strongly suspects her to be an evil witch that tries to jinx the people of the village. Valesquita decides to reveal her mother's secret and searches for clues. As her mother catches her in the act, she freezes in fear. But as the two look each other in the eyes, Valesquita realizes that her opponent isn't an evil witch, but only her malicious mother.
- Irna seeks refuge in her own world with Elias, a rubber doll.
- Alfonso is a stage hypnotist, gruff and shrewd. He will once again show off his skills at a local talent show. The winner will get the heart of the lower middle class, as well as a generous prize money.
- On a hot summer day four groups sweat without realizing that the world is slowly ending.
- In a Spanish hotel Sven is looking for love, but in just one night he gets dumped by all the girls. Sven's journey for emotional shelter becomes a comical odyssey between self-pity and self-discovery.
- Two siblings in a war, try to escape the brutal reality by making up a comic world.
- A woman is chained to a factory rooftop. A man offers to rescue her. Things are not always what they seem.
- At a party teeming with young artists and bon vivants, the everyday, and yet the extraordinary, is happening. On their quest to experience love and life, they talk carelessly, risking everything, and dance on in the neon lights of the night... all together, and each by themselves.
- The sun shines every day in Chagrin Valley, USA. Frozen in a 1950s-inspired artificial decor, this assisted living facility for people who suffer from dementia is home to fragile and ageing residents. Here, everyday life drags on slowly. Florence and her companions dream of an elusive elsewhere during their days punctuated by confusion, fleeting conflicts and overdue family visits. The caregivers - as kind as they are exhausted - run the show in this pastel-coloured, sanitised social theatre. Between two shifts, they confess their desire for a better future; one that is not so different from that of the residents, after all. The Swiss documentary maker Nathalie Berger, a Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) graduate, casts a tender and curious look over her protagonists. Examining our relationship with old age, illness and the universal fear of dying, and gently probing into the matter of our individual and collective dreams, she interrogates the false promises of our contemporary society.
- Late summer heats up the city where people search for their own form of love.
- A small airport in Switzerland. Simone has to attend her father's funeral. But she misses her connecting flight. Natalie is waiting. For whom, she doesn't know yet. Two strangers, caught in a night with no morning.
- Anna is a nine-year-old girl of Swiss and South Korean origin, who is torn between her cultures. One night, she hears a noise coming from her wardrobe and a mysterious man appears inside. To her surprise, he seems rather lost than threatening. The stranger turns out to be from North Korea and desperately wants to return back home, so Anna decides to help him. She learns that her new friend isn't so very different from herself.
- You wake up in a capsule in space. Your memories are gone. Your mission: Save humanity. What do you do? CTRL ALL DEL is a science fiction web series that takes up current topics such as pandemics, isolation and climate change.
- The film tells of a tragic story that took place in an abandoned cellulose factory. With the help of his two best friends, we get to know who David was, the hole he left behind and we are taken on a journey through one of the biggest industrial facilities in Switzerland.
- A young girl faces the loss of her father as she's trying to find reason in his suicide.
- Isabell can't get over her dog's death. Unable to overcome her grief and surrounded by happy dog owners, she decides that no one else should have a dog.
- Anna, Francesco, and the eight years old Giorgio can't afford a fancy holiday. Social pressure makes them fake a Bahamas vacation through photoshopped posts on social media. The deluge of likes/comments fuel an all-consuming dopamine rush.
- "Josef finds a propeller hat and does everything he can to be able to fly with it." That's roughly the short film narrative of film student Claudius, who does everything in his power to finally shoot his graduation film. But making films isn't that easy, not to mention flying.
- The ways of love are strange indeed. Sometimes they lead to the neighbours' patio roof or to the music stand of a piano in the university basement. Both Valentina and Sonnili are in an intimate relationship with an object. Even if the hurdles might look incomparable to those encountered by more traditional love stories, the core topics remain the same: intimacy, comfort and the idea that the world is a nicer place if you share it.
- A Swiss headmistress and politician deals with her son's radical attitude.
- Personal choices lead to difficult decisions.
- The twins Lucie and Pierre believe they have swapped bodies. Lucie wants to abort an unplanned pregnancy, while Pierre longs for the experience of motherhood.
- Maurizio is a student living in Zurich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many others, he can see an inherent beauty in them. After all, what difference can exist between a flower and an infection, if they are both a gift of nature?